The Art Gallery section of the Observer includes a striking moquette feature based on Seats of London.
Cat reads Seats of London
Mags the Norwegian forest cat, who features in Seats of London contemplating a pristine Routemaster moquette footstool crying out for claw-sharpening, seen here appraising the account of himself on page 81.
Andrew Martin signs copies of Seats of London at the London Transport Museum's Acton Depot open weekend
On Sunday 29 September Andrew Martin gave a well-attended talk on London moquette at the LT Museum’s Acton depot, during one of their open weekends, and then signed copies. Note the bespoke moquette waistcoat and baker boy’s cap in the background, and the small shoulder bag in classic Routemaster moquette for only £55, whose dimensions appear to have been designed perfectly for holding a single copy of Seats of London.
Time Out features Seats of London
The London listings magazine Time Out has run a colourful feature on Seats of London in its London Eye section.
The Londonist features '13 moquette patterns you didn't know existed'
The Londonist website has a feature on Seats of London, selecting ‘13 moquette patterns you didn’t know existed’.
Seats of London launched at Woven Memories
Seats of London was launched at the Clerkenwell showrooms in London of Camira, the manufacturers of all TfL’s transport moquette, at their event ‘Woven Memories’. Here is the author, Andrew Martin (attired in a waistcoat made out of four London Transport moquettes of varying vintage), with Camira’s Design Manager Ciara Crossan, against a backdrop of further London moquettes.
The Spectator reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
In his review of Duncan Hamilton’s Cardus biography The Great Romantic and Safe Haven’s Cardus collection A Field of Tents and Waving Colours, Marcus Berkmann concludes that Gideon Haigh (who introduces the latter) admits that ‘Cardus was the most important of cricket writers; and if this distinction is of the slightest importance to you, you will enjoy these two books very much indeed.’
The Cricketer reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The Cricketer magazine’s review of Neville Cardus’s A Field of Tents and Waving Colours hails ‘the perfect read on a summer’s afternoon in the garden, or better yet… on the boundary’.
A Field of Tents and Waving Colours reviewed in Wisden Cricket Monthly
‘A lovely companion [to Duncan Hamilton’s The Great Romantic] in a charming jacket with an excellent introduction by Gideon Haigh.’
The Daily Mail reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours
The Daily Mail reviews A Field of Tents and Waving Colours, along with Duncan Hamilton’s The Great Romantic, and Roger Alton celebrates ‘two beautiful books’, and in particular ‘a beautiful little collection of the best of Cardus’s writing’.